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Youth Hotel of iD Town / O-office Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000

Youth Hotel of iD Town, on the hilltop of the seaside valley, was originally served as one of the dormitory building in Honghua Dying Factory’s residential area, representing the settlements of the first batch of immigrant labors after the open-reform policy and industrialization that firstly took place in Shenzhen.

Tianhe Youth Commune / O-office Architects

罗靖琳 — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Located in Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, the Shadong village, where sits the buildings of this project, was erected in December 1995. The local economic corporation in the late 90s constructed on the commune’s fringe land a 4-storey warehouse leased to the Guangzhou Book Center for their new book storage.

Lianzhou Museum of Photography / O-office Architects

Diego Hernández — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Lianzhou, a small city locates in the northern mountain area of Guangdong, has witnessed the miraculous 13 consecutive years of Lianzhou International Photography Festival, one of the most important photographic art events in China. Construction of the photography museum is considered as the generator of the old downtown’s revitalization plan, and at the same time, a tribute to the city’s past. Lianzhou Museum of Photography (LMP) was chosen to build in South Zhongshan Road, which local people cordially called "Old Street", a place full of local traditions and memories.The original site is an old candy warehouse which has been the main venue for the last 12 photo festivals.

New Collectivism / O-office Architects

Diego Hernández — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Collectivism had been one of the core spirits that motivated contemporary China’s modernisation, despite its relation with politically mandatory. The current social condition of fragmentation and individualisation caused by comprehensive, rapid urbanisation has seemingly diluted that former ideology.

10 Young Chinese Architecture Firms To Watch Out For

Han Zhang — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:30:00 +0000

2016 has been a momentous year for Chinese architecture. From the completion of the Harbin Opera house by MAD to the Aga Khan Awards recognizing Zhang Ke of Standard Architecture for his micro-scale design of the Hutong Children’s Library and Art Centre in Beijing. It seems the general perception of Chinese architecture has finally moved beyond the big, weird and ugly.

MJH Gallery of iD Town / O-office Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Formerly the packing workshop of Honghua Dying Factory, MJH Gallery was conceptualized from (re-)structuring the spatial narratives of this vacant building. The new architectonics was independently implanted onto the original inner ground of the old workshop, which was regarded as a large open concrete pavilion, in order to build the new multi-layered spatial/time logic into the industrial relic.